How Does the Secular Humanist View the Idea of Soul or.
In his essay “Religion and the Queerness of Morality,” George Mavrodes uses Bertrand Russell’s description of a Godless world in which men occur as accidental atomic collections and exist only until the point of physical death as a basis for claiming that secular morality is an inadequate method for providing reasons for people to be moral.
Secular humanism is a philosophy or life stance that embraces human reason, secular ethics, and philosophical naturalism while specifically rejecting religious dogma, supernaturalism, and superstition as the basis of morality and decision making. Secular humanism posits that human beings are capable of being ethical and moral without religion or belief in a deity.
Philosophy of Religion: Chapter 9: Religion, Morality and Ethics. Section 5 Morality as Secular and Utilitarian: Patrick Nowell Smith holds that not only are ethics based upon philosophical reasoning (secular ethics) different from and autonomous from ethics based upon religion but philosophical ethics is superior to religious ethics.
A Case For Secular Morality: Objective Morality Without God. Under a secular and naturalist view, there is nothing transcendent that exists outside this universe that is intelligent and that has control over things that happen in our universe. Ontologically, morality is not grounded in the existence of any spiritual beings, and to the.
As the Humanist views it, a person’s goal is to appreciate life, to assess his purpose in life, and to accept this purpose. Death should not concern the Humanist, since death only is an end to a complete life. Humanists do not believe in life after death, or eternal life. Secular Humanists describe themselves as atheists or agnostics.
Jonathan Haidt has written a complicated article on moral psychology and the misunderstanding of religion. I'm going to give it a mixed review. The first part, on moral psychology, is fascinating and a good read that I think clarifies a few ideas about morality.
Secular humanism is a religion and a philosophy of life which views man as the supreme being of the universe. It rejects the existence of God and the supernatural. It sees moral values as relative and changing and varying from person to person. It is important for every Christian to know the subtle ways that secular humanism is manifesting.